Ignore a sluggish or stuck garage door through one more cold snap and you're not just dealing with an annoyance — you're setting up a bigger repair bill. A door that's frozen to the slab and gets forced open with the opener can bend the bottom panel, strip the drive gear, or snap a cable. A door that's crawling because a spring has lost tension will keep losing tension, and one day it won't lift at all, usually with you standing in the driveway late for work. The ice storms that roll through Hall County most winters don't happen often, but when they do, they expose every weak point in a door that's been running on borrowed time.